[cybmole]

[QUOTE=Manichean;1145983 I think you should make the splash screen display by default. I agree with the logic that if you can't quickly display a program window, at least display something to let the user know the program is working. Yes, that's equivalent to putting up spinners, but I believe it would work on some level.[/QUOTE]

illogical Mr Spock. having the program display a splash screen means it has More work to do at start-up . not less. I disable splash screens wherever I can. ( I don't need the placebo illusion that stuff is happening just because the splash appears).

[and I rip pointless logo screens out of PC games because I don't need to hear some idiot saying "Nvidia" in a pretentious whisper, but that's drifting off-topic ]

But I am intrigued by the authors statement that on his 2yr old desktop he gets calibre load times of <1 secs because GUI & stuff is pre-loaded by his desktop environment. is there no way to convince windows 7 that it should preload the same stuff via it's prefetch system ?

PS I think this thread is great fun, more more than a simple "my library is bigger than yours" or a "real men buy real books" thread

PPS, as the guy who started the thread, all I really wanted to know was whether load lime was proportional to number of books in library. I believe that got answered a few pages back :-)